The 2013 World Series has its first controversy, one that had a huge effect on Game 1.

Umpires reversed a call in the bottom of the first that changed the entire character of the inning. The Boston Red Sox, who benefited from the call, capitalized and went on to score three runs against St. Louis Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright. They went on to win, 8-1.

The play in question: With runners on first and second base and one out, Boston DH David Ortiz hit a potential inning-ending double play grounder to second baseman Matt Carpenter. Shortstop Pete Kozma dropped Carpenter's relay throw, but second base umpire Dana DeMuth rulled Kozma had the ball long enough in his glove and was transferring to his hand. DeMuth called baserunner Dustin Pedroia out.

Boston manager John Farrell argued the call and asked the six-man umpiring crew to confer.

"I think we're fully accepting of the neighborhood play, but my view is that it wasn't even that," Farrell told reporters. "There was really no entry into the glove with the ball."

After a brief discussion, plate umpire/crew chief John Hischbeck ruled Pedroia safe, which loaded the bases with just one out. Cardinals manager Mike Matheny came out to argue the reversal, to no avail.

The next batter, Mike Napoli, hit a bases-clearing double that gave Boston a 3-0 lead.

DeMuth said he never saw Kozma drop the ball.

"My vision was on (Kozma's) foot (touching the bag). And when I was coming up, all I could see was a hand coming out and the ball on the ground. All right? So I was assuming," DeMuth told a pool reporter.

Fox played audio of Hirschbeck, who was wearing a microphone, explaining the reversal to Matheny on the field:

"There's five of us out here, OK? And all five of us agreed 100 percent that it wasn't a catch," Hirschbeck said. "Our job is to get it right."

Matheny still wasn't happy about it after the game.

"That's not a play I've ever seen before," Matheny told reporters. "And I'm pretty sure there were six umpires on the field that had never seen that play before either. It's a pretty tough time to debut that overruled call in the World Series. Now, I get that trying to get the right call. I get that. Tough one to swallow."

MLB started using video review to assist umpires in 2008, but only to decide whether potential home runs went over fences or were fair balls.

Under rules changes likely to be approved for next season, video will be used for virtually every call other than balls and strikes. Managers would be allowed one challenge over the first six innings and two from the seventh inning on. Officials in New York City would make the final ruling.